My Nikifor

Nikifor Krynicki was a tubercular Polish folk artist who enjoyed a brief spell of acclaim before his death in 1968. Here he's played - rather wonderfully - by female actor Krystyna Feldman, who sports a pipe-cleaner moustache as she spoons soup with one hand while slapping at a shapely rump with the other. Apparently Nikifor's great skill was in painting miniatures. Krzysztof Krauze's droll, unassuming little biopic stands as a fitting memorial to a life on the fringes.